Observations

Multimedia

Real World

This Web site

Pete & Pete's Wellsville

Considering the inconsistencies, perhaps Wellsville is in the
same state as Springfield in The Simpsons. However, it's
interesting to contemplate the possibilities...

The name of their town is Wellsville, motto: "Come back when
you have a minute". ["Farewell, My Little Viking"]

They live somewhere around 500 miles from the Hoover Dam.
["King of the Road"]

They live four running hours from the Canadian border. ["When
Petes Collide"]

There is a map of Wellsville which reveals that it is in
Clinton County. ["Day of the Dot"]

Pete takes the riding lawnmower to the Manitoba Peninsula which
is in Canada near Minnesota. ["Grounded for Life"]

There is a Wellsville in Kansas with a milk museum about an
hour away. ["Yellow Fever"]

On the other hand, when Stu the Bus Driver looks at a map, he
pulls out a map of Massachusetts. ["Yellow Fever"]

They live in bear country. ["Rangeboy"]

They live in a climate where it is hot and humid in the summer,
cold and snowy during the winter. [Various episodes.]

They live in a state whose motto is "The Sideburn State" as
seen on several license plates. [Various episodes.] The car that
Pete & Pete sit on when narrating "What We Did on Our Summer
Vacation" has a New York license plate. One person has claimed that
there's a car with a Kentucky license plate in "Grounded
for Life" (which makes the lawnmower thing really
strange).

Younger Pete's radio station WART begins with a 'W' which
places them east of the Mississippi. [various episodes]

They live near a coast since the Petes have gone to the beach
and come home all on the same day. ["What We Did on Our Summer
Vacation"]

They live in the Eastern Time Zone in a state which observes
Daylight Savings Time. ["Time Tunnel"]

A school trip takes them on I-87 which goes through the Hudson
Valley. ["Yellow Fever"]

When younger Pete and Artie, the Strongest Man in the World, go
to the bowling alley in "New Year's Pete", the name of the bolwing
alley is Lodi Lanes.

When digging his escape tunnel in "Grounded for Life", younger
Pete discovers the wallet of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa who
disappeared in Pennsylvania but is rumored to have been buried in
New York or New Jersey.

Actual Location

The show was actually taped in Northern New Jersey. In 1993,
"Wellsville" was really Leonia, NJ (for the school scenes) and
South Orange, NJ (for neighborhood and house scenes). In 1994, it
was South Orange, NJ. (At one time this house was up for sale.) For
the third season, "Wellsville" was Cranford, NJ. (Rumor has it that
mess made in the episode "Halloweenie" caused the residents of
South Orange to rid themselves of the show.) Pete and Ellen's high
school is Bayonne High School in Northern New Jersey.